[Ct-nfb] FW: transportation bill update - rest area commercialization issue

[Elizabeth Rival]

From: Randolph Sheppard [mailto:randolph_sheppard at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2012 5:25 PM
To: randolph_sheppard at yahoo.com
Subject: Fw: transportation bill update - rest area commercialization issue

 

On behalf of President Nicky Gacos of NABM I am sending you a copy (below) of a preliminary look at the new transportation bill - rest area commercialization issue. He has been working for the past five days with National Association of Truck Stop Operators (NATSO), National Federation of the Blind (NFB) Leadership, and of course the new National Federation of the Blind Entrepreneurial Initiative (NFBEI) to make sure that commercialization at interstate rest areas stays far removed. NFBEI lead by Mr. Terry Smith seems to prove more valuable everyday as these threats come up quite rapidly.

Blind Vendors across the country must continue to unite under one umbrella to make sure our priority is protected long into the future. Together we will prevail.

Thank you,

Kathy Ungaro

630-234-4444

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From: Nicky Gacos 
To: Kathy Ungaro
Sent: Thu, June 28, 2012 11:21:40 AM
Subject: Fwd: transportation bill update - rest area commercialization issue

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From: Brad Stotler 

Date: June 28, 2012 9:38:39 AM EDT
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Subject: transportation bill update - rest area commercialization issue

Coalition - The draft surface transportation conference report went public early this morning. It is a two-year bill (period of fiscal years 2013 and 2014) that would provide $101 billion to the Highway Trust Fund. After a preliminary review, there is NOT any language that changes federal law on commercial services at rest areas. I'm going to continue to review it though. The conference report still must be signed by conferees and voted on. The current extension expires on June 30. 

The conference report drops the House’s Keystone XL pipeline and coal ash titles. As far as paying for the bill, details won’t become available until the Joint Committee on Taxation releases its estimated score ofthe conference report (which should be soon). But it appears the two major payfors are LUST fund transfer and pension reforms.

http://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20120625/HR4348crJES.pdf

http://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20120625/CRPT-112hrpt-HR4348.pdf

Brad Stotler
Director of Government Affairs
NATSO, Representing America’s Travel Plazas and Truckstops

  

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